Iran Hits Back at US Spokeswoman for ‘Wuhan Virus’ Comments

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed comments from Spokeswoman for the US Department of State Morgan Ortagus who described the clues to the US’ role in creation of the coronavirus as “conspiracy theories”.

News ID: 80603

Date: 24 March 2020 - 14:14

In a post on its Twitter account on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran rejected the baseless comments from Ortagus who has described as part of the “conspiracy theories” the remarks made by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei about Washington’s possible role in creating COVID-19.

The Foreign Ministry called on the US State Department spokesperson to refer to an article published by the Global Research, IFP reported.

“If the accusations made by the world against the US government over the coronavirus were ‘conspiracy theories invented by Iran’, then you wouldn’t need to go anywhere far; just answer part of the questions published in the ‘Global Research’,” the Ministry said in the tweet.

It came after Ortagus refuted Ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks about the US’ possible role in the creation of COVID-19 which she referred to as the “Wuhan Virus”.

The American spokeswoman said that the “conspiracy theories about the Wuhan Virus” are harmful, irresponsible, and 100 percent false.

On March 23 in a speech broadcast live to the Iranian nation, Ayatollah Khamenei turned down the US’ offer of help in dealing with the coronavirus epidemic in Iran, saying the disease may have been created by the US as part of its hostile plots against Iranians.

The Leader also emphasized that Iran could not trust the US because it could be giving medicines that spread the virus or cause it to remain in Iran.

The Global Research has published an op-ed article on March 21, dismissing the groundless claims from some major US media and politicians that the novel coronavirus originates in China.

The article has asked ten questions for the United States about the virus’ origin.